My Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing

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An invaluable companion for writers at every stage of their journey to make the writing life a more complex and cooperative venture. In this intimate and eloquent meditation, the award-winning poet Carl Phillips shares lessons he has learned about what he calls an apprenticeship to what can never fully be mastered, through 40 years of teaching and mentoring emerging writers. He weaves together his experiences as a poet and prose writer with discussions of underexplored elements of the writing life, including ambition, stamina, silence, politics, practice, audience, and community. In the tradition of Anne Lamotts Bird by Bird, Rainer Maria Rilkes Letters to a Young Poet, and Marcus Aurelius Meditations, this is an invaluable companion for writers at every stage of their journey. Phillips book serves as a partner in speculation and an invitation to embrace mystery. This audiobook offers a suspense-filled journey, featuring layered mysteries and memorable characters for fans of crime and thrillers.

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